From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 17 09:05:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA20777 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA20738 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 15546 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Sep 1997 16:05:27 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:05:26 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: Niall Smart Subject: Re: Distributed Lock Manager on FreeBSD Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Niall Smart; On 17-Sep-97 you wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > Hi Amancio Hasty; On 17-Sep-97 you wrote: > > > Microsoft's strategy for server clusters: > > > http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/info/reliabilityoverview.htm > > > > It looks like a very large undertaking on their part. I think I > > disagree > > with some of their concepts, but if your intent is to create similar > > service under FreeBSD, then this is about what we are building. > [snip] > > A DLM is key to these technologies. The you need an RDBMS which > > understands the sharing concept. A raw/block device is to follow, then > > a > > file system. This is the order in which we are going, anyway. > > Hi, > > Your project sounds very cool, is there anything like this available > commercially? It must have been a lot of work to implement, and > its usually quite difficult to persuade management to trust their > data to software with "Free" in its name! Well done. My management does :-) Was not easy. If they insist on paying for it, we can talk about it offline. --- Sincerely Yours, (Sent on 17-Sep-97, 08:57:52 by XF-Mail) Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.643.5559, Emergency: 503.799.2313